2012-06-28

Boonstock is this weekend. I've never been, and not going this year, but I see that it's on Google Maps.

If you're going to Boonstock, and are excited because you get to camp...well, good luck. Martok reported last year that...you know, actually, I'll save this story for after the event. Let you losers learn this one on your own.

In surveys conducted in 2002 and 2011, pollsters at Gallup found that members of the American public massively overestimated how many people are gay or lesbian. In 2002, a quarter of those surveyed guessed upwards of a quarter of Americans were gay or lesbian (or "homosexual," the third option given). By 2011, that misperception had only grown, with more than a third of those surveyed now guessing that more than 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian. Women and young adults were most likely to provide high estimates, approximating that 30 percent of the population is gay. Overall, "U.S. adults, on average, estimate that 25 percent of Americans are gay or lesbian," Gallup found. Only 4 percent of all those surveyed in 2011 and about 8 percent of those surveyed in 2002 correctly guessed that fewer than 5 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian.

As you might guess, as the practitioners of a disgusting and inferior lifestyle celebrate their depravity today, I'll be doing something productive at home. Like re-painting my gun cabinet.

† Of course, since the final destination of the uranists is already a pretty hot place, I suppose its fitting that their earthly time is spent trying to get accustomed to it.

2012-06-04

Canadian investigators say 29-year-old Luka Magnotta's obsessions led him to post Internet videos of his killing kittens, then a man, and finally to his arrest at the cafe where he had spent two hours reading media coverage of himself.

An international manhunt set off by a case of Internet gruesomeness that captured global attention ended quietly in the working-class Neukoelln district of the German capital when a cafe employee recognized Magnotta from a newspaper photo and flagged down a police car.

Confronted by seven officers, "He tried at first giving fake names but in the end he just said: `You got me,'" said police spokesman Guido Busch. "He didn't resist."